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December 22, 2013

The 2013 Darwin Awards Are Out!

Here Is The Glorious Winner:
1. When his .38 caliber revolver failed to fire at his intended victim during a hold-up in Long Beach, California would-be robber James Elliot did something that can only inspire wonder. He peered down the barrel and tried the trigger again. This time it worked. | My Underwood Typewriter

Posted by gerardvanderleun at December 22, 2013 10:07 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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Do the Darwin Awards get a Darwin Award for being too retarded to remember what the idea behind the award is?

Posted by: B Moe at December 22, 2013 1:45 PM

No, they have not qualified, except perhaps under their new rules.

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at December 23, 2013 6:07 AM

No, they have not qualified, except perhaps under their new rules.

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at December 23, 2013 6:07 AM

The "honorable mentions" shouldn't even be that. To qualify for a Darwin, someone has to have permanently removed himself (or herself) from the gene pool--and this mortal coil--through his own idiotic actions. Slicing one's finger off can certainly be idiotic, but absent infection or lack of clotting factor, it is not fatal, nor does it prevent one from reproducing.

Posted by: waltj at December 23, 2013 1:26 PM

True story but years ago. A young man was brought into a Medical Examiner's Office. He had been playing a game called "Mexican Roulette" where all except 1 round was chambered. There was a harsh saying that I heard on several occasions: Too dumb to live, like the unfortunate young woman who had been drinking, was tipsy, lived in a 5th floor apartment. She tried to get her cat who was on the ledge. We brought her in.

Posted by: Nancy at December 23, 2013 9:42 PM

Y'know, if I had been the guy that was being robbed, had grabbed the guy's hand and turned his gun back on him, that's what I would've told the cops, too. "Yeah, the idiot's gun was jammed and he looked down the barrel."

Posted by: Joan of Argghh! at December 24, 2013 8:10 PM

Y'know, if I had been the guy that was being robbed, had grabbed the guy's hand and turned his gun back on him, that's what I would've told the cops, too. "Yeah, the idiot's gun was jammed and he looked down the barrel."

Posted by: Joan of Argghh! at December 24, 2013 8:10 PM

Y'know, if I had been the guy that was being robbed, had grabbed the guy's hand and turned his gun back on him, that's what I would've told the cops, too. "Yeah, the idiot's gun was jammed and he looked down the barrel."

Posted by: Joan of Argghh! at December 24, 2013 8:10 PM

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